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CBP LA Updates Procedures for Goods Refused by FDA
December 11, 2014 |Customs

CBP and the Food and Drug Administration created a joint Federal Destruction and Redelivery Team (Team FDR) to handle shipments refused by the FDA, said the CBP Los Angeles Field Office in a public bulletin. The field office is updating the process for exporting and destroying such shipments based on the new Team FDR, effective immediately, it said.

CBP Employee Satisfaction Continues Decline, Annual Survey Shows
December 10, 2014 |Customs

CBP continued its decline in employee satisfaction, leaving the agency even closer to the bottom in the latest ranking of federal agencies by the Partnership for Public Service, a think tank. CBP ranks 293th out of 315 agency subcomponents in employee satisfaction, the report said (here). Last year, CBP ranked 277th (see 13122016). The Partnership for Public Service said it uses data from the Office of Personnel Management’s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey to rank agencies and their subcomponents according to a Best Places to Work index score. CBP's index score fell to 43.5 in 2014 from 45.1 in 2013, the survey found. A fellow subagency of the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, was below CBP in employee satisfaction, ranking 314th, second to last, the report said (here). DHS ranked last among large agencies, the group said (here).

CBP Provides Update on AD/CV Duties in New Publication
December 9, 2014 |Customs

CBP outlined its fiscal year 2014 for antidumping and countervailing duties in a AD/CVD Update (here). The update, the first edition of an apparently recurring publication, provides various statistics on CBP's AD/CVD efforts over the fiscal year. CBP said it "processed 279,890 new AD/CVD imports," administered 1,532 AD/CVD instruction messages from the U.S. Department of Commerce, and "assessed final duties on 142,481 AD/CVD entries," it said. The agency's update also said the Justice Department filed four cases on antidumping duty evasion, while three importers are fighting CBP requests for single transaction bonds over AD/CVD concerns. CBP also collected 12 percent more than during FY 2014 in AD/CVD deposits in FY 2014, up to $508.5 million, it said.